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                    <h2>Animation</h2>

<p>jsPlumb offers a simple <code>animate</code> function, inserts a callback for jsPlumb to repaint whatever it needs to at each step. 
You could of course do this yourself; it&#39;s a convenience method really.</p>

<p>The method signature is:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-text" data-lang="text">jsPlumb.animate : function(el, properties, options)
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<p>The arguments are as follows:
- <strong>el</strong> - element id, or element object from the library you&#39;re using.
- <strong>properties</strong> - properties for the animation, currently only <code>left</code> and <code>top</code> are supported.
- <strong>options</strong> - options for the animation, such as callbacks etc.</p>

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